Suchergebnisse - "Burma"

Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar von James, Helen

“… Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed …”
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A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi: A Hybrid Politician von Lubina, Michał

“… This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a …”
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Reassessing Reification: Ethnicity amidst “Failed” Governmentality in Burma and India von Prasse-Freeman, Elliott

“… In part because a single colonial project eventually formally incorporated Burma as an appendage to British colonial rule of India, Burma scholars persistently draw on historiography and anthropology …”
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Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar von Brinham, Natalie

“… This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar's genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal …”
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Mapping ethnicity in nineteenth-century Burma: When ‘categories of people’ (lumyo) became ‘nations’ von Candier, Aurore

“… Successive wars and the establishment of a border between the kingdom of Burma and British India in the nineteenth century challenged Burmese conceptions of sovereignty and political space …”
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SALT AND SOVEREIGNTY IN COLONIAL BURMA von LALLY, JAGJEET

“… On the one hand, rulers maintained the allegiance of their subjects by ensuring their access to salt of suitable price and sufficient quantity …”
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Courting colonialism: considering litigation as an act of Citizenship in Colonial Burma von Venker, Matthew

“… Litigants in colonial Burma were ascribed a set of personal law codes according to their race and religion …”
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Moral and scientific boundaries: research ethics on the Thai–Burma border von Parker, Michael J

“… 4 In addition to issues related to understanding, it may be very difficult for research subjects to refuse to participate in research when it is carried out by a research centre that is also their main provider of healthcare …”
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Categorical confusions: gender and the colonial construction of the ‘Chinese Buddhist’ in Burma von Venker, Matthew

“… British law in colonial Burma separated the legal personhood of imperial subjects by religious status …”
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Burma, 1942 : the road from Rangoon to Mandalay von Warren, Alan

“… Britain's bluff was called and millions of Britain's protected' subjects in Asia fell into the hands of a brutal occupying power …”
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The twofold challenge for Karen Baptist intellectuals in colonial Burma: A national claim and its failure von Fujimura, Hitomi

“… Two years after the Anglo-Burmese War, with the British colonial takeover of Burma complete and yet still subject to outbreaks of rebellions, a small group of Karen Baptist intellectuals in Rangoon …”
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Legal Mediators: British consuls in Tengyue (western Yunnan) and the Burma-China frontier region, 1899–1931 von WHEWELL, EMILY

“… Their role, which was to perform administrative duties that protected the rights of British subjects, is most prominently remembered in connection with the east coast …”
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Rohingya Ethnic Muslim Minority and the 1982 Citizenship Law in Burma von Haque, Md. Mahbubul

“… The Rohingyas have experienced difficulties in obtaining citizenship since the enactment of the 1982 Citizenship Law in Burma …”
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Fragmented tribes of the India-Burma-Bangladesh borderlands: representation of the Zo (Kuki-Chin) people in colonial ethnography von Pau, Pum Khan, Mung, Thang Sian

“… ', while the former is subject to distortion, the latter is often glossed with vested interest. Taking the case of the indigenous tribes of the India-Burma-Bangladesh borderlands, this paper probes the representation of the Zo (Kuki-Chin …”
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Understanding prostitutes and prostitution in democratic Burma, 1942–62: State jewels or victims of modernity? von Than, Tharaphi

“… Prostitution in Burmese society, as in many South East Asian countries, is a taboo subject …”
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Making spirits, making art, Nat carving and contemporary painting in pre-transition Myanmar (Burma) von Hasinoff, Erin L., Kendall, Laurel

“… Prior to the recent democratic transition, nats appeared as the subjects of paintings, sometimes offering sociopolitical commentaries …”
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Burma 1942 von Warren, Alan

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The Uses of Human Malleability: Images of Hellish and Heavenly Sojourns in Pre-Modern Burma von Handlin, Lilian

“… For more than a millennium, Burmese donors sponsored elaborately decorated structures to publicize their allegiance to the Buddha’s Dhamma in its Pali version, …”
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Multi-Method (Geo-) Thermochronology and Trace Elements Tracing Magmatism, Mineralization and Tectonic Evolution

“… With the rapid development of analytical techniques, especially the in situ Lu-Hf, Rb-Sr, U-Pb, fission-track, and (U-Th)/He dating of garnet, zircon, apatite, …”
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Milk to Mandalay: dairy consumption, animal history and the political geography of colonial Burma von Saha, Jonathan

“… British imperial writers in Burma regularly moaned about milk. They complained about the difficulties they faced acquiring it in the …”
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